Helen has a heart for enabling and facilitating others to experience life overseas through short-term outreach trips, and to use that experience to be challenged and inspired to bring about social change and justice in the world, both globally and locally.

She has led, and helped organise short-term mission trips to a number of countries including Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi, Rwanda, Nicaragua, India and Nepal, linking in with a range of humanitarian organisations and partners. She is also involved in the leadership of some local and regional networks (secular and faith-based) that address social justice issues and seek to engage with disadvantaged people and groups, both locally and globally.

  Since my return the biggest impact has been the courage I now feel when taking on new challenges. I want to hold onto that sense of being alive that I had in Kenya and make the most of everyday instead of rushing through blindly.
Shirley, Thornbury
Some of the organisations that Helen has worked for, and continues to do consultancy work for, include Christian Aid, Open Arms International, Eurovangelism, Traidcraft and the George Muller Trust, plus volunteer work for Oxfam, Fairtrade Foundation and smaller grassroots organisations including Warmth and Sparrow village.

In her spare time Helen is a volunteer global issues teacher and campaigner for Christian Aid, and serves on the mission strategy group of her home church: Thornbury Baptist. She is also a town councillor and school governor, and studying part-time for an MA in Missional Leadership.

Helen is married, with twin teenage daughters